Does it make sense that in order for a society to succeed it must prosper at the bottom and middle ?

Question

as well as at the top. This is really a question in logic not a political question, but politics is the only vehicle with which we have to accomplish our ends. So I ask it here.

Answer 1

Not according to kim jong il and Rush limbaugh. To them prosperity is measured by the wasteline of the top 2%

Answer 2

Yes, it makes PERFECT sense.  Society can be compared to a pyramid.  If only the upper-class thrives and grows, then the pyramid will become top-heavy, and the whole structure will collapse.  But if the bottom AND the middle grow as well, then the pyramid stays in balance.  In other words, for society to succeed, everyone needs to succeed, not just the successful.

Answer 3

yes, of course.

i guess it depends what you mean by successful.

some rich people think they can lock themselves in mansions in gated communities and ignore everything around them.

but as we've seen, we're all in this together, we sink or swim together.

Answer 4

There is a saying, "he who is down fears no fall." Well, the only way is going up.

Answer 5

Yes. The top success is dependent on the middle and bottom success.

Answer 6

It does and it does!

Statistics on the shrinking middle class raises the question, "Where did they go?"

Guess what, we had huge growth in the upper-class.  People may have moved down from middle class but most moved up (some people on the bottom too)

Beware of listening to the media's version of our economy they have a political agenda they are pushing.

There is a reason the whole world is trying to sneek into this country - think about it.

Answer 7

Percolate up would work much better than trickle down. A great strategy for our economic growth would be create jobs, lower prices,raise wages,middle America will spend,business will thrive.Contrary to conservative belief this formula, although requiring some level of government intervention would work much better than the supply side economic policies that have brought us to our present problems.

Answer 8

Good choice. During the late forties and all of the fifties we experienced an unbelievable turn around of our economy as opposed to when we entered world war two. We were a manufacturing giant. One out of every three workers were union members. Suburbs starting popping up as soldiers went to work for GE, any of the automakers, Honeywell, RCA and a host of other corporations. The GI bill helped many and America prospered from top to bottom. Somewhere along the line things started to change. Unions were killing the country, American workers were too expensive. People starting losing jobs, executive pay started to increase as workers pay started to decrease. More jobs were lost. Companies start shedding benefits for their workers, executive pay increases. More jobs go overseas to cheaper labor markets, companies shed pensions, executive pay increases. In the fifties the CEO of a big company made twenty times the floor workers wages. Today it's hundreds of times in many big corporations. We now have record home foreclosures, a staggering economy, a credit crisis and an energy fiasco that we're paying out the ying yang for and it's hurting many but not the few. They have become obscenely wealthy as our jobs go elsewhere along with our dreams. Does that help?

Answer 9

Just think, if everybody was rich, there would be no rich.

Who would do what is necessary to exist ?

Just a little example:  What do you think would happen, if a Doctor

would have no Assistants like someone who keeps the operating rooms clean, installs and fixes the equipment, sterilizes the instruments,

cleans the patients, etc. etc. etc.

Get my point ? There can be no top if there is no bottom.

Thank you all working people.